diff --git a/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/ptyDriver.py b/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/ptyDriver.py
index 0bb80c5d..86b86d5a 100644
--- a/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/ptyDriver.py
+++ b/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/ptyDriver.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class driver(screenDriver):
         if bytes == b'':
             raise EOFError
         # respect timeout but wait a little bit of time to see if something more is here
-        while screen_utils.hasMore(fd,0.0000001):
+        while screen_utils.hasMore(fd,0.001):
             if (time.time() - starttime) >= timeout:
                 break
             data = os.read(fd, 65536)